Spatiotemporal patterns of drivers of episodic acidification in Swedish streams and their relationships to hydrometeorological factors

The topology of hair streams and whorls

The topology of hair streams and whorls in man, with an observation on their relationship to epidermal ridge patterns

✍ G. H. Findlay; W. F. Harris 📂 Article 📅 1977 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 861 KB

## Abstract Hair slope, whorl, cross and field formation is expressible in a topological form. The mathematical description required suggests an origin for the patterns in a growth process occurring in the upper dermis which determines the patterns of the hair slope. The formulae proposed by Euler,